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Zero Waste with Kids - How it works

Leading a zero-waste lifestyle with children is exhausting and complicated? Not necessarily. Children do have different needs and life with them is a little more difficult to coordinate. However, a...

Sustainable start to school: 7 ideas for the climate-friendly school cone

In just a few weeks we will once again see numerous children running excitedly through the streets with shining eyes and colorful backpacks on their backs, on their way to a very big event: startin...

7 Tips for a More Sustainable Working Day

Anyone who has started to make their everyday life less packaging-intensive and more sustainable will know that it is not always that easy. Especially in stressful situations, climate protection ca...

Plasticfree July - Choose to refuse

Up to 13 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. Three quarters of all the garbage in the sea is made of plastic. It can take several hundred to a thousand years for plastic to com...

10 Tips for Sustainable Travel

Summer is the time for traveling. Who doesn't love discovering the world with a backpack on their back and a tent in their luggage? But traveling can sometimes be a real test of endurance, and not...

Festival summer, but make it sustainable

Summer is festival time. And it actually looks like we can finally dance again this year. But of course we put on our sustainability glasses here too and quickly realized: There is still room for i...

How much organic is in my product?

Organic is not always organic: Numerous seals indicate the different standards that a product must meet. This can sometimes be quite overwhelming. For anyone who feels the same, we have looked at ...

Climate protection you can bite into: This is how sustainable nutrition works

We can reduce our own footprint every day through our diet. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, food production accounts for 20 to 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is the ...

How to: Plastic-free storage

In Germany, 18 million tons of food ends up in the trash every year. 10 million tons of that could be avoided. Just imagine how long you would have to nibble on 10 million tons. According to Tafel...

Zero Waste Sex

Sex. A slightly different way to awaken spring fever. But it can be quite effective. Here too, we put on our sustainability glasses and look to see if there are environmentally friendly alternativ...